Tourists in the Capitol turn in awe when Edward M. Kennedy, hunched with age and back pains, ambles onto the Senate floor.

A fisherman who admitted stabbing a sea lion that apparently took bait from his fishing line was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation.

The deaths of six sea lions found in traps on the Columbia River earlier this month were likely caused by the heat, the National Marine Fisheries Service said.

Romanian media say a man was rearing a lion in his back garden until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.

A rabid mountain lion was shot to death after attacking a 10-year-old boy as he and his family celebrated his birthday in a national forest near Phoenix, officials said.

Acting to protect her dog, 80-year-old Martha Smith killed a mountain lion at her home along French Creek near Fairburn. She missed with her first shot, went into the house to call 911, then went back outside with a .22-caliber rifle.

A group of lions devoured a man at the game lodge where he worked, police said Thursday.

A 3 1/4-inch limestone lion from ancient Mesopotamia fetched the highest price ever paid at an auction for a sculpture _ $57 million.

A fisherman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing a sea lion that apparently stole his bait.

That was no dog chasing cars in southern Ohio earlier this week. It was a cat _ a big cat.